My garage improvement

[UTH]

Only took us over 4 years of living here to get around to starting to sort this!!! There’s still some touching up to do, and see what it looks like dry to decide on another coat or not. Deciding what to do about the manky floor and ceiling is for another day.

This gives you a vague idea of what it started like. Lots of crap and clutter to the right of the Focus and behind the Corvette



A couple from when we very first moved in







Then after a good clear out and tidy yesterday ready to paint











We have no idea what the weird graffiti is about!!

6 hours of tedious painting later










The Focus is getting tyres replaced so the garage is one car down until Friday

Still bits to do, but not a bad 48 hours.

[roadie]

Massive improvement, good job!

[Dave.]

Some inspiration for the ceiling and floor if you've not seen this before....

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=57...

[Jefferson Steelflex]

Any plans to do the floor? I painted mine using Epoxy and a polyaspartic clear top coat and it looks pretty good, and is rock hard. You can do some nice colours and patterns to jazz up the garage some more.

[UTH]

Jefferson Steelflex said:

Any plans to do the floor? I painted mine using Epoxy and a polyaspartic clear top coat and it looks pretty good, and is rock hard. You can do some nice colours and patterns to jazz up the garage some more.

Yeah certainly want to do something. First job is seeing how easy or hard it’s going to be to lift up the manky carpet that’s there

[Rough101]

Sensational

[sooty61]

Rough101 said:

Sensational

[UTH]

I'm wondering if yellow and green would be cool or awful?


https://softfloor.co.uk/product/classic50-lime-x25...

https://softfloor.co.uk/product/classic50-yellow-x...

[Mr Magooagain]

Next!

[Lotobear]

Rough101 said:

Sensational

Damn, you got there before me!

[UTH]

Lotobear said:

Rough101 said:

Sensational

Damn, you got there before me!

Starting to feel like I'm missing an in joke?

[EdmondDantes]

That’s some difference already, lovely cars also.

[Lotobear]

UTH said:

Lotobear said:

Rough101 said:

Sensational

Damn, you got there before me!

Starting to feel like I'm missing an in joke?

[UTH]

Lotobear said:

UTH said:

Lotobear said:

Rough101 said:

Sensational

Damn, you got there before me!

Starting to feel like I'm missing an in joke?

Ohhhhhhhhhhh!!! Well that solves a 4 year mystery, must be why that's on the wall then?!
We assumed that for some reason the people who owned it before decided that was a good way to commemorate a dead family member or friend etc.

[ukwill]

UTH said:

Yeah certainly want to do something. First job is seeing how easy or hard it’s going to be to lift up the manky carpet that’s there

Perhaps hire one of these
https://www.hss.com/hire/p/floor-tile-stripper

Your back will thank you.

[UTH]

ukwill said:

UTH said:

Yeah certainly want to do something. First job is seeing how easy or hard it’s going to be to lift up the manky carpet that’s there

Perhaps hire one of these
https://www.hss.com/hire/p/floor-tile-stripper

Your back will thank you.

Ohhhhhh yes that looks promising, thank you!

[UTH]

And back to full capacity

[UTH]

Given the colours of the cars, trying to decide if one of these floor patterns would look good or awful.....

Any thoughts?

[Zarco]

Not feeling it personally.

[Sford]

If you do work on the car then a dark colour. If the garage is more of a celebration of cars then the lighter the better in my view. Patterns make it look fussy.